Chapter 6 Return

Although the arrow hit the leopard, it missed the target because the mount was frightened. It failed to kill the leopard and instead aroused its ferocity.

The crazy leopard pounced towards the Fourth Prince. At this moment, Xiao Zhen's guards were blocked behind the Fourth Prince's men. Those people were only concerned about preventing Xiao Zhen's men from chasing. In the chaos, there was a window next to the Fourth Prince. By the time they reacted, the Fourth Prince had been bitten by the leopard and pulled off the horse!

Xiao Zhen was unaware of all this. The wind was whistling in his ears, and the scenery on both sides was rapidly receding backwards. The ordinary horse was running at lightning speed at this moment.

Xiao Zhen knew this was not normal!

The horse was suddenly frightened not only because it saw the leopard, but there might be other reasons. However, Xiao Zhen had no time to think about it at this time. A cliff appeared in front of him, and the horse rushed down with him without hesitation!

In a flash, a firework seemed to explode in Xiao Zhen's mind. In the extreme splendor, he saw another self.

He is going to die!

No, he can't die yet!

Xiao Zhen mustered all his strength and leaped from the saddle. He stretched out his hands and finally grabbed a branch sticking out from the rock wall, but the branch could not support his weight. Before his feet could find a foothold, the branch snapped and Xiao Zhen fell straight into the abyss like a sharp sword sinking into the abyss...

Xiao Zhen woke up three days later. When he opened his eyes, he saw a house built of stones. There were a few simple farm tools piled in the corner of the wall, and the air was filled with a faint scent of medicine.

Xiao Zhen let out a long breath. Everything was the same as in his previous life. He did not die. He was rescued by a herbalist and saved his life.

Yes, Xiao Zhen remembered his past life, and the dream that had haunted him for many years was the last scene before his death in his past life.

In his previous life, just after Xiao Yue died in his arms, he turned the mechanism and used the hidden gunpowder to die together with the enemy!

A tear slid down from the corner of his eye, and Xiao Zhen lay there quietly, motionless.

After a long while, Xiao Zhen called softly: "Da Zhuang, Da Zhuang..."

A young man trotted in and saw Xiao Zhen, who had already woken up. He was very happy and shouted loudly: "Grandpa, come quickly, he is awake!"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, the boy's eyes widened and he looked at Xiao Zhen in surprise: "Hey, how do you know my name is Da Zhuang?"

Xiao Zhen smiled. You and I went through life and death together in our previous life. How could I not remember your original name?

"When I was half asleep, I seemed to hear someone calling Da Zhuang. They were probably calling you, right?"

Da Zhuang smiled and nodded: "It must be Grandpa calling me, and you heard it."

An old man walked in. Although they were in different lives, Xiao Zhen recognized him at a glance. This was Yao Shanbo, his savior in two lives.

Yao Shanbo was proficient in medicine, but for some reason he did not become a doctor. Since Dazhuang could remember, the grandfather and grandson had been living in seclusion in the mountains.

In the previous life, not long after Xiao Zhen and Da Zhuang left, Yao Shanbo died unexpectedly...

In his previous life, Xiao Zhen also fell off a cliff in the same way and was rescued by Yao Shanbo and Dazhuang in the same way. The difference was that in his previous life, he rested here for a month. After a month, he asked Dazhuang to take his token to the Princess's Mansion in the capital and ask the mansion to send someone to pick him up.

However, Dazhuang did not bring back anyone from the Princess's Mansion, but instead brought Xiao Yue, who was disguised as a little beggar!

Only then did Xiao Zhen know that Prince Liang was dead. Prince Liang's Mansion determined that the murderers of Prince Liang were Princess Jiayi and Prince Consort Xiao, and killed them at Zither Villa!

Not only that, the Prince of Liang's Mansion also sent people to kill Xiao Su, the next head of the Xiao family!

In anger, the Xiao family mobilized their hidden troops and fought to the death with the Liang army. In the end, the emperor executed the entire Xiao family for treason. Xiao Zhen and Xiao Yue hid their identities and wandered around the world!

But twenty years later, the two brothers still died...

Thinking of this, Xiao Zhen no longer had the heart to recover from his injuries. He struggled to get up, but Yao Shanbo held him down: "No, you'll have to lie down for at least another five or six days with all these injuries."

Xiao Zhen was pleasantly surprised and looked at Yao Shanbo with hope: "In five or six days... I... I... will be able to... be... healed?"

In his previous life, he recuperated here for a whole month!

Yao Shanbo shook his head: "How can you recover? When I said five or six days, I meant it would take another five or six days before you can sit up!"

"No... that would take too long... Do you have... is there any way... to get me out of here earlier... earlier?"

Yao Shanbo looked at him, thought for a moment, then turned and left.

Seeing that Grandpa left without saying anything, Dazhuang was confused. He touched his head and comforted Xiao Zhen: "Don't worry, my Grandpa is a very good doctor. Last time, a monkey broke its leg, and Grandpa reconnected the bone. The next day, the monkey could climb trees."

As soon as Da Zhuang finished speaking, Yao Shanbo's dry cough was heard outside the window. Da Zhuang was so scared that he stuck out his tongue and blinked at Xiao Zhen.

Hope arose in Xiao Zhen's heart. In his previous life, he had heard Da Zhuang talk about Yao Shanbo's medical skills more than once. Da Zhuang said that his grandfather had an ancestral prescription that could heal even broken bones. Unfortunately, Yao Shanbo was unable to pass the prescription to Da Zhuang until his death.

"Da Zhuang, good brother, can you help me?" Xiao Zhen said in a low voice.

Da Zhuang said quickly: "Yes, of course, you see I have nothing to do anyway, right, hehe."

Xiao Zhen looked at Dazhuang, and tears welled up in his eyes.

In his previous life, Da Zhuang followed him through life and death, and finally died with him.

Compared with the calm and decisive "mountain owl" in his memory, Dazhuang is now just a straightforward country boy.

Da Zhuang grinned, revealing his big white teeth, his eyes sparkling like a clear spring in the forest, pure and sweet.

Looking at the young Dazhuang, Xiao Zhen was in a trance for a moment. A cold and brutal figure appeared in front of his eyes, holding a bloody sword, with a cold and decisive look in his eyes.

The figure in his memory gradually overlapped with the person in front of him, then suddenly separated and finally disappeared. Xiao Zhen's eyes became clear again. The person in front of him was Da Zhuang, sixteen-year-old Da Zhuang, clean and innocent.

He is not the mountain owl who kills without blinking an eye, he is just Da Zhuang.

"Da Zhuang, what day is today?" Xiao Zhen asked.

Da Zhuang thought for a moment and said, "It's either the second or the third day of April."

Xiao Zhen's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Young master, what's wrong with you? Are you in pain?" Da Zhuang asked with concern.

It hurts, of course it hurts. If he moves even a little, he will feel excruciating pain all over his body. However, compared to the pain of facing the tragic death of his loved ones in his previous life and being unable to do anything, this pain is nothing.

Everything in front of me is real, not a dream, but reality.

Xiao Zhen's smile became more genuine. He looked at Da Zhuang and said word by word: "You are still Da Zhuang, and I am still Xiao Zhen. Da Zhuang, help me do something..."

In the capital, noble sons like Xiao Zhen would not carry money with them, whether it was cash or banknotes. They would either have their attendants carry it or keep accounts. Being able to keep accounts in any shop was also a kind of respectability.

But Xiao Zhen was different. For a child who had run away from home as a common occurrence since childhood, he would always carry a few hundred taels of silver with him regardless of whether he brought an entourage with him or not.

For example, when Yao Shanbo rescued Xiao Zhen, he found a purse on him. Yao Shanbo did not open it, and the purse was under Xiao Zhen's pillow at that time.

There were a few pieces of silver and a few gold beans in the purse. In addition, there was a secret pocket sewn inside Xiao Zhen's arrow-sleeved robe, which had been torn to pieces by tree branches. Inside the pocket were five neatly stacked silver bills worth one hundred taels.

At this time, Xiao Zhen was glad that he had the good habit of carrying money with him.